JL Williams

  • “14.6” New Video!

    Click here to watch a video of “14.6”, the final poem from my set at Speak Up!, the Loud Poets international women’s day event last month. Be sure to check out the other videos from the evening that are going up on the Loud Poets YouTube channel. So far there are: Alice Tarbuck’s “Satanic Transformations”,

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  • Speak Loudly!

    I’m excited to be reading this Thursday at Speak Up! the Loud Poets event for international women’s day alongside RJ Hunter, Alice Tarbuck, Georgia Bartlett-McNeil, JL Williams and Jj Fadaka. The event is raising funds for Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and is explicitly trans and non-binary inclusive, which fits well with the IWD theme of

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  • JL Williams’ Memorable Holiday Poetry

    Jennifer Williams keeps it short and to the point: When on the Aeolian Isles (thanks to a travel bursary but sort of like a holiday as it was so stunning) writing my first collection … Metamorphoses by Ovid Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy JL Williams’ poetry has been published in journals including Poetry Wales, The

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  • On Saturday, the fine London-based Donut Press celebrated its 10th birthday with a quintuple book launch — Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner all launched their new pamphlets. I’m particularly looking forward to ABJ’s Apocrypha. I’ve heard him read from the sequence before and will be at the Glasgow launch

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Amy Jo Philip

Amy Jo, a trans woman in a floral dress, standing a microphone with her arms wide and her hands spread.

Photo by Jules Lacave-Fontourcy